Blogging From The Comfort of My Couch…

…not by choice, but necessity.

I’ve been sitting here mostly all morning. I started the day reading a book, which I finished and now I’m almost done with another one.

As I wrote about in my last post – I’ve had some unexpected results from my medication changes. The acne is out in full force – I have an entire army of acne in full acne regalia setting up camp on my chin and it’s driving me crazy. In addition to the acne, I have this not-s0-fun full on scratch-till-you-bleed case of itchy skin. This isn’t a new experience for me and it has me somewhat worried, but only because during my last hospital stay, which was the last time this happened, I was told that it’s one of the symptoms of my liver issues and is indicative of a flare up.  So, even though I went to the Dr. last week and he told me I was looking great and we made the medication changes that support this new “it’s going good” plan – I ended up going to the lab yesterday morning and sending my Dr. an email telling him why.

This, my friends, is why I *love* having a standing order with the lab. My Dr. has never given me a hard time about going when I feel I need to and we’ve gotten some really great information from the sudden “OH MY GOSH I LOOK LIKE BIG BIRD AGAIN” rushes to the lab for blood work.

In addition to the crazy acne and the fact that I’m going to need skin grafts in certain places from all the scratching – I also have thrush. This is NOT a fun thing to have…and the stuff I have to swish? It tastes like what I would imagine the blue water in the toilet tastes like…that’s all I can say. Don’t ask me why I have thought about what that blue water tastes like…and trust me, that’s not the weirdest thing I’ve thought about…

Today, I noticed yet another unexpected side effect from the reduction of Prednisone – my knees are hurting again. Now, I should add, it took me a few weeks (what can I say, I was going through other stuff, like being told I was dying) to realize that the medication I was taking was actually helping with my knees. It was like an ah ha moment – I looked at my husband one day and said, “Whoa, my knees haven’t hurt in a long time – I just noticed…” and they really hadn’t.

Until today.

My left one will hardly bear my weight and my right one is just throbbing…both of them are swollen and look like crap.

So I guess the anti-inflammatory was helping more than just my liver…and now that I feel pretty decent (actual liver/spleen pain aside) – I am stuck on the couch…reading books and blogs.

Which leads me to this nifty little piece – which Dawn shared earlier today:  Kevin Smith Kicked off Southwest Flight for Being Fat

I’ve posted a few comments – I’ve had my share of bad airline experiences, being both fat and tall. It’s really frustrating to me that the airlines aren’t called to the mat more often on their crazy policies. They’d save a whole lot more money (thus removing the requirement to pay for baggage) if they’d just remove several rows of seats, giving passengers more leg room and reducing the overall weight of the plane.

Instead – they are trying to figure out ways to cram ever more people in there…just not fat people

That’s all I got — now back to the book

[ETA: Sadly, I've deleted a large portion of this post regarding the Kevin Smith issue - I'll leave the original link, because I think spotlighting the policy is important - and I think it goes a long way to show just how unfairly these types of policies are enforced. However, Mr. Smith - a rather portly man himself - has gone out of the way to make sure everyone knows, “Dude, I know I am not that fat, and if I WAS, I wouldn’t go out in public.” - which does a huge disservice to the people deeply impacted by these unfair policies.

I'll be sure, in the future, to get the 'rest of the story' before I decide to throw my support behind someone who, on the surface, appears to be going to bat for those who are unfairly treated - rather than making sure the world knows, “Dude, I know I am not that fat, and if I WAS, I wouldn’t go out in public.”]

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